As the series names suggests, the focus is strongly on British examples but the author roams the country widely and brings the marshes he visits vividly to life. Splendid stuff. I bloody love it."–Alan Crowden, BES Bulletin, Volume 48(4), December 2017"I expected this book to be an ...
Is Horseweed good for wildlife? Horseweed (Conyza canadensis) It turns out that horseweed is also a friend to the monarch, providing animportant nectar source during fall migrations. And it feeds butterfly and moth larvae, including beautiful caterpillars in the Cucullia genus. ...
The scientific name for fleabane is Erigeron speciosus and its common names include showy daisy, horseweed and seaside daisy. Young kittens are more prone to ingestion of the plant’s toxic compounds due to their curious natures and inclination to chew on plants. How do you control horsetai...
My hair was curly, and my eyebrows were two thick black uneven S-shaped caterpillars. When they make movies that show an actor as a child and as a grownup, they don’t get actors that look like the one could have developed into the other because they don’t have to. People change ...
Within minutes the press was still rocking as it snaked winding its way through the plant, reeled in by straining D-9 Caterpillars chained to the bases of building columns. The press was on its new foundation in a matter of hours instead of days, and I was lucky to have had a ...
e) Many plants have umbrella-shaped flowers such as yarrow flower that contain many tiny flowers. They are a very favorable environment for parasitoid wasp that feed on caterpillars and aphids. f) Prefer native plants instead of exotic plants. They will attract the adequate pollinators. ...
Old timers claim they can predict the severity of the coming winter on the basis of how thick the woolly coats of the small caterpillars are. They are not even worms but then they aren’t bears, either, yet their actual name remains ‘woolly bears’ throughout most of the English-...
butterflies as part of their children’s summer reading___this year. I had no idea that planting a few plants would lead to such a(n)___study of caterpillars and butterflies. The caterpillar has kept me interested and___during our recent self-isolation (自我隔离). Hanging on by a threa...